Author(s): Jackie Richter-Menge; Bruce Elder; Kerry Claffey; Jim Overland; Sigrid Salo
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Abstract: An array of 9 autonomous drifting buoys was deployed in the Canadian Beaufort Sea in the September 2001. These buoys measured ice stress and position, sending data back to the mainland, via satellite, for analysis. The array was designed to study the development of stresses as the wind drives the sea ice cover against a coastline and to investigate the spatial variability of ice stress. In this paper, we will present the initial results from the buoy array, describing the characteristics of ice drift and ice stress during the measurement period.
Year: 2002